Aunt Zhou didn't tell Mrs. Feng much, and hurried back to continue digging wild vegetables. Although Mrs. Feng said there would be more tomorrow, they didn't have any food left, so how could they bear to let go of the food?
In one morning, Zhou Er's family achieved great results. However, when Zhou's daughter-in-law stood up, she felt dizzy and fell to the ground.
Everyone was like this at this point, a typical case of hypoglycemia. Everyone else stood up cautiously, holding onto something and slowly standing up, waiting for the black spots to pass before walking again. My daughter-in-law was so excited today that she jumped up.
"Hurry up! Give her half a piece of candy!" Aunt Zhou took out the candy given by Old Lady Feng and asked the third son Zhou Haisheng to bite half of it and then stuffed it into the mouth of the youngest daughter-in-law Yan Zi.
Swallow felt dizzy and felt like there was candy in her mouth. She smacked her lips and found it was indeed. She hadn't tasted this sweetness in years. Half of the candy had melted, and Swallow sighed deeply. She should have gotten up more slowly. What a pity to waste half a piece of candy. If she had saved it for the children, she wondered how happy they would be!
"Are you feeling better, Yan Zi?" Zhou Haisheng asked.
"Okay! Let's go home!"
"Don't worry, I'll ask your eldest brother to go to Wangjia Village to borrow a cart, and then let Haisheng take you back." Aunt Zhou was kind-hearted and not harsh on her daughter-in-law.
"Thanks to Old Lady Feng, I see she's not only a doctor but also a fortune teller! Without those candies she gave me, Yan Zi would have been in big trouble today!" Aunt Zhou muttered, "I owe her another favor. I'll see if I can give her something as a thank you gift later."
Yan Zi said weakly, "Mother, I still have a piece of flowered cloth that my cousin from my mother's family gave me last time. How about taking it..."
Shuisheng borrowed a flatbed truck, and Yan Zi and Aunt Zhou Er sat on it, and several baskets of wild vegetables were also placed on the truck. Although they had been digging wild vegetables for the whole morning and had little strength left, they had hope in their hearts, and the journey back was easy.
When Aunt Zhou returned home, she first picked a basket of wild vegetables and took it to Mengzi's house.
Cuijuan was delighted when she saw it. "Really! This dish looks fresh. Second Aunt, don't cook anything else for lunch. Just use the porridge to make some wild vegetable porridge for me. I love it. And in the evening, use cornmeal to steam wild vegetable dumplings. I saw that Old Lady Feng's family makes it this way. It's delicious!"
Aunt Zhou was very efficient. She washed the big pot, brought the water to a boil, poured in the corn paste, and when it boiled, she added the wild vegetables. After the wild vegetables were added, the firewood in the hearth was removed.
Cuijuan has already come over following the fragrance.
“It smells delicious.”
Indeed, Aunt Zhou put the porridge in a large bowl and said, "You eat first. I'm going back to eat too! Leave it there when you're done. I'll clean it up."
Next door, Aunt Zhou's family also ate wild vegetable porridge. However, theirs did not have pure cornmeal, but added black flour.
"Today, there's plenty of porridge!" Shuisheng said to the children with a smile, "After you finish your milk, there's also candy, half a piece per person."
A few little ones' eyes lit up.
After two days of facing the wall and reflecting on her mistakes, Xiao Ya finally got her freedom. She immediately ran straight to the Feng family courtyard like a little bird.
She arrived just in time. Lianhua was picking peaches and Shuixiu was holding a basket under the tree to catch them.
The fragrance of peaches these past few days has nearly intoxicated the Feng family and the people nearby. This morning, Jiaojiao announced that it was time to pick the peaches, and Lianhua was the first to rush out, rolling up her sleeves and starting picking.
Shuixiu followed, holding a basket and standing under the tree, while Old Lady Feng stood by, holding Jiaojiao and giving orders.
"Yes, that one! And the one next to it." Jiaojiao pointed with her little finger, and Lianhua immediately picked the ripe peach according to the instructions.
The little girl stood outside the fence, smelling the scent and swallowing her saliva.
Jiaojiao waved to Xiaoya: "Come here, Xiaoya! Eat peaches!"
"Wow~" The little girl jumped into the yard happily. There were peaches to eat!
The peaches in the yard are covered with fur. Except for being a little bigger and having a stronger smell, they are exactly the same as peaches in ordinary life.
Old Lady Feng looked at the little girl's height, picked out a mediocre peach, washed it and gave it to her, "Eat slowly!"
He washed one for Jiaojiao and one for himself.
An old man and two children gathered together to eat peaches.
Lianhua and Shuixiu swallowed the saliva in their mouths, looked at each other, and ate first and then picked!
So, the five people in the yard all concentrated on eating peaches seriously.
"Delicious!" Old Lady Feng finished her meal first. "It's not an exaggeration to call this peach a fairy peach!"
In fact, it was still a little worse than the peach from the space. Ever since she first tasted the peach from the space, Jiaojiao fed Old Lady Feng a peach every day.
Lianhua and Shuixiu, who had never tasted the space peach, were amazed by it and thought it was a heavenly peach.
"This peach... is so delicious!" Shuixiu exclaimed.
Lotus smacked her lips and savored the taste: "This is the most delicious peach I've ever tasted in my life! The Queen Mother's peach might be no better than this!"
The little girl wolfed down the food and quickly said, "It's delicious!"
When peaches were in season, the whole village of Wangjia came to see the fun. The children were especially envious, and would come every day to count the peaches with their mouths watering.
"Lotus, pick a few and keep them, and pick the rest and share them with everyone." Old Lady Feng made the decision.
Nowadays in the countryside, when someone’s fruit trees bear fruit, the children in the village will come to their house to ask for the fruit.
Lianhua took a basket and filled it with two peaches for Xiaoya. "Xiaoya, take the peaches home and tell everyone you meet on the road that you have asked your children to come to Old Lady Feng's house to eat peaches!"
The little girl said softly, "Yes," and then asked, "Can I take the peach pits I've eaten back home to plant?"
"Plant it!" Jiaojiao also held one in her hand. She gave it to Xiaoya and said, "Go back and plant it!"
The little girl happily accepted the peach pit and skipped back home.
Soon, children from the village began to come running in. Adults followed to see the wonder. Each family got two peaches, equally distributed.
"Don't throw away the peach pits after eating them. Find a place to plant them. Maybe they will bear fruit next year!" Old Lady Feng instructed everyone.
"Need I tell you? I'm going to eat even the hairs from these fairy peaches!" Wang Guifen's words made everyone burst into laughter. In such a famine year, whether it was peaches or shepherd's purse, to everyone, it was a miracle from heaven.
Everyone chatted and laughed, and took their children home.
After everyone had dispersed, Jiaojiao suddenly said, "Sometime soon, there will be a disaster in the village!"
Old Lady Feng was shocked: "A disaster? What disaster?"
"The refugees entered the village and smashed, looted and robbed!"
Refugees! The terrifying scene in Old Lady Feng’s memory resurfaced before her eyes.
She gasped. No, I have to talk to the village chief right away and figure out how to handle this!
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